January Round-up of Scifi Books
Today I am spending a lot of time clicking refresh as my latest book was released yesterday. The Perception of Prejudice is the third story in the Two Democracies: Revolution series.
Anyway, enough of a plug for my book. On to the month's round-up...
There is somewhat of a mixture of choices in this month's collection. Of course there are the usual military SF and space opera books, but also a couple of examples of the wider scifi genre.
As last month, I have created books2read links where possible. These give you a choice of stores for those books that are widely available. If you wish to do so, you can nominate a store as your preferred one and books2read will automatically take you straight to that one in the future.
When Merlin encounters the derelict hulk of an old swallowship drifting in the middle of nowhere, he can't resist investigating. He soon finds himself involved in a situation that proves far more complex than he ever anticipated.
The Hundred Worlds have withstood invasion by the relentless Hok for decades. The human worlds are strong, but the Hok have the resources of a thousand planets behind them, and their fleets attack in endless waves.
The long war has transformed the Hundred Worlds into heavily fortified star systems. Their economies are geared for military output, and they raise specialized soldiers to save our species. Assault Captain Derek Straker is one such man among many. Genetically sculpted to drive a mech-suit as if he wears a second skin, he must find a path to victory.
It's a battle in which he'll never admit defeat, but not even Straker knows the dark truth behind this titanic struggle. With Lieutenant Carla Engels piloting, Starship Liberator explores enemy territory in search of answers.
The Second Interstellar War - pitting humans and their Tadpole allies against an enigmatic alien empire - appears to have stalemated. Neither side can push through to the other’s core systems without risking substantial losses, neither side can gain a decisive advantage. But when a brilliant human scientist invents a way to jump across the stars without a gravity tramline, an opportunity arises to strike the enemy in their undefended rear. It is an opportunity that cannot be allowed to pass.
Now, HMS Vanguard and her crew - and the largest fleet ever assembled by the nations of Earth - heads out on a do-or-die mission to challenge their enemies to one final battle ...
... And if they lose, they will never see home again.
The crew of the Replicade found peace after escaping the space pirate known as Crase Tuin. But the tranquility of an alien world has a hidden darkness that is brought to light when they encounter a young girl with special abilities. When Anki and Brendle intervene to help her, they are caught in the crosshairs of a secret, powerful organization intent to seize the girl or destroy them all. Faced with potential death, the crew must make a decision: give into the looming threat of the organization called CERCO, or die fighting to protect her.
Meanwhile, Lieutenant Commander Ilium Gyl has taken command of the Greshian scout ship Hamæråté. A breach in protocol brings questions of his loyalty to the Greshian Empire and leads to a power struggle as a rebellion sparks in a faraway sector of the Alorian Galaxy. Will his ambitions cripple the Greshian Fleet, or will he emerge a hero, a conqueror, a savior?
Chief Security Officer Jas Harrington must protect her shipmates from hostile aliens on new worlds. For the efficient if quick-tempered Jas, that hasn’t been too hard up till now. But her captain is drug-addled, and he’s hungry for the bonuses he gets from finding valuable resources.
When the captain won’t listen to Jas’ fears about a mysterious planet, he is compromised by contact with a strange life form—a life form that threatens to take over the entire ship and return to Earth, where it can spread its deadly infection.
Now Jas is in a race against time, struggling to quarantine the alien infection and prevent the aliens from achieving their goal: Generation. She doesn't realize it yet, but as she fights to save her crew, the future of all humanity hangs in the balance.
A collection of this highly-acclaimed writer's short works.
Includes Rainbows for Other Days, in which a cyborg ranger attempts to reconcile saving the planet and saving the people on it.
The first shot of a new war echoes through the galaxy. Craze has high hopes for what the alliance with an old enemy, the Foreworlds, will do to defeat a worse enemy, the Quassers.
The test of a highly-advanced weapon, created by the efforts of the alliance, pushes tensions over the brink and kills thousands. To make it worse, the Foreworld ambassador is keeping secrets.
Conventional warfare against the Quassers isn’t working, and if the alliance ends, Craze has become the most hated man in the galaxy for no reason.
With nothing left to lose, Craze sets in motion one last chance for survival.
The intrepid spy, Grey Kat, is escaping with key codes from the Emperor's Revenge when she is trapped by the notorious pirate, Black Hawk. He persuades her to assist in his next piracy attempt, and they are thrust into a series of mishaps while dodging pursuit by the Emperor's ships. At the same time, Kat strives to discover the secret hidden behind Black Hawk's mask before she suffers the fate of his unfortunate wife.
Cast adrift from old ties, Rei and the crew prepare to start a new chapter.
First, however, the old chapter must be closed. All the pieces of Rei's long search have come to this. The picture begins to complete, but the few missing pieces threaten to send her on another wild chase across the stars.
Meanwhile, the war between Nekose's rebels and the Dynasty heats up. Both sides need an advantage to win, and unfortunately for Rei both sides feel she has the answer to their problems.
Joanna Angeles is ready for anything. She has been dispatched to a frozen planet at the back end of nowhere, accompanied only by an advanced Artificial Intelligence known as Barbas. Her mission: to transform an unliveable frozen wasteland into a home for over a hundred-thousand colonists within ten years. Unbeknownst to her, the brutal glacier world is not as lifeless as she thought. When her planetfall is mistaken for the coming of a deity by a local ranger, Volistad, Joanna finds herself embroiled in an ancient war.
Can Joanna and Volistad find common ground, despite their vast differences?
Can they forge a connection to unite their two peoples? Or will the ice-bound world of Chalice claim them all?
Heir to one of the leading “Four Horsemen” mercenary companies, Jim Cartwright is having a bad year. Having failed his high school VOWS tests, he's just learned his mother bankrupted the family company before disappearing, robbing him of his Cavalier birthright.
But the Horsemen of eras past were smart—they left a legacy of equipment Jim can use to complete the next contract and resurrect the company. It’s up to Jim to find the people he needs to operate the machinery of war, train them, and lead them to victory. If he’s good enough, the company can still be salvaged.
But then again, he’s never been good enough.
The situation in the galaxy is growing desperate. Every day the Vorn are harvesting world after world to be used as food for their Queens. The Vorn ships are nearly indestructible and destroying every fleet that dares to oppose them.
Lakiam Fleet Commodore Dreen is trying to form an alliance to try to stop the Vorn, but he needs a victory to bring other Protector Worlds to his side.
Fleet Admiral Kurt Vickers undertakes a daring journey to the center of the galaxy seeking a half-mythical race that might just have the secret to stopping the Vorn. However, the mission goes horribly wrong, and he might never see Newton or Earth again.
Serus is a killer. As a policeman he was recruited to be a weapon at the Martian government's disposal. Brainwashed into compliance, he’s lost the life he once had, but his memories remain. When a hit is placed on his sister's life, Serus is faced with the dark reality that in order to save Kara, he must go rogue and doing so will put both of their lives in danger. Forced into an unlikely alliance to save Kara, Serus discovers a truth that could bring Mars to its knees, but what if it's too late?
Anyway, enough of a plug for my book. On to the month's round-up...
There is somewhat of a mixture of choices in this month's collection. Of course there are the usual military SF and space opera books, but also a couple of examples of the wider scifi genre.
As last month, I have created books2read links where possible. These give you a choice of stores for those books that are widely available. If you wish to do so, you can nominate a store as your preferred one and books2read will automatically take you straight to that one in the future.
When Merlin encounters the derelict hulk of an old swallowship drifting in the middle of nowhere, he can't resist investigating. He soon finds himself involved in a situation that proves far more complex than he ever anticipated.
The Hundred Worlds have withstood invasion by the relentless Hok for decades. The human worlds are strong, but the Hok have the resources of a thousand planets behind them, and their fleets attack in endless waves.
The long war has transformed the Hundred Worlds into heavily fortified star systems. Their economies are geared for military output, and they raise specialized soldiers to save our species. Assault Captain Derek Straker is one such man among many. Genetically sculpted to drive a mech-suit as if he wears a second skin, he must find a path to victory.
It's a battle in which he'll never admit defeat, but not even Straker knows the dark truth behind this titanic struggle. With Lieutenant Carla Engels piloting, Starship Liberator explores enemy territory in search of answers.
The Second Interstellar War - pitting humans and their Tadpole allies against an enigmatic alien empire - appears to have stalemated. Neither side can push through to the other’s core systems without risking substantial losses, neither side can gain a decisive advantage. But when a brilliant human scientist invents a way to jump across the stars without a gravity tramline, an opportunity arises to strike the enemy in their undefended rear. It is an opportunity that cannot be allowed to pass.
Now, HMS Vanguard and her crew - and the largest fleet ever assembled by the nations of Earth - heads out on a do-or-die mission to challenge their enemies to one final battle ...
... And if they lose, they will never see home again.
The crew of the Replicade found peace after escaping the space pirate known as Crase Tuin. But the tranquility of an alien world has a hidden darkness that is brought to light when they encounter a young girl with special abilities. When Anki and Brendle intervene to help her, they are caught in the crosshairs of a secret, powerful organization intent to seize the girl or destroy them all. Faced with potential death, the crew must make a decision: give into the looming threat of the organization called CERCO, or die fighting to protect her.
Meanwhile, Lieutenant Commander Ilium Gyl has taken command of the Greshian scout ship Hamæråté. A breach in protocol brings questions of his loyalty to the Greshian Empire and leads to a power struggle as a rebellion sparks in a faraway sector of the Alorian Galaxy. Will his ambitions cripple the Greshian Fleet, or will he emerge a hero, a conqueror, a savior?
Chief Security Officer Jas Harrington must protect her shipmates from hostile aliens on new worlds. For the efficient if quick-tempered Jas, that hasn’t been too hard up till now. But her captain is drug-addled, and he’s hungry for the bonuses he gets from finding valuable resources.
When the captain won’t listen to Jas’ fears about a mysterious planet, he is compromised by contact with a strange life form—a life form that threatens to take over the entire ship and return to Earth, where it can spread its deadly infection.
Now Jas is in a race against time, struggling to quarantine the alien infection and prevent the aliens from achieving their goal: Generation. She doesn't realize it yet, but as she fights to save her crew, the future of all humanity hangs in the balance.
A collection of this highly-acclaimed writer's short works.
Includes Rainbows for Other Days, in which a cyborg ranger attempts to reconcile saving the planet and saving the people on it.
The first shot of a new war echoes through the galaxy. Craze has high hopes for what the alliance with an old enemy, the Foreworlds, will do to defeat a worse enemy, the Quassers.
The test of a highly-advanced weapon, created by the efforts of the alliance, pushes tensions over the brink and kills thousands. To make it worse, the Foreworld ambassador is keeping secrets.
Conventional warfare against the Quassers isn’t working, and if the alliance ends, Craze has become the most hated man in the galaxy for no reason.
With nothing left to lose, Craze sets in motion one last chance for survival.
The intrepid spy, Grey Kat, is escaping with key codes from the Emperor's Revenge when she is trapped by the notorious pirate, Black Hawk. He persuades her to assist in his next piracy attempt, and they are thrust into a series of mishaps while dodging pursuit by the Emperor's ships. At the same time, Kat strives to discover the secret hidden behind Black Hawk's mask before she suffers the fate of his unfortunate wife.
Cast adrift from old ties, Rei and the crew prepare to start a new chapter.
First, however, the old chapter must be closed. All the pieces of Rei's long search have come to this. The picture begins to complete, but the few missing pieces threaten to send her on another wild chase across the stars.
Meanwhile, the war between Nekose's rebels and the Dynasty heats up. Both sides need an advantage to win, and unfortunately for Rei both sides feel she has the answer to their problems.
Joanna Angeles is ready for anything. She has been dispatched to a frozen planet at the back end of nowhere, accompanied only by an advanced Artificial Intelligence known as Barbas. Her mission: to transform an unliveable frozen wasteland into a home for over a hundred-thousand colonists within ten years. Unbeknownst to her, the brutal glacier world is not as lifeless as she thought. When her planetfall is mistaken for the coming of a deity by a local ranger, Volistad, Joanna finds herself embroiled in an ancient war.
Can Joanna and Volistad find common ground, despite their vast differences?
Can they forge a connection to unite their two peoples? Or will the ice-bound world of Chalice claim them all?
Heir to one of the leading “Four Horsemen” mercenary companies, Jim Cartwright is having a bad year. Having failed his high school VOWS tests, he's just learned his mother bankrupted the family company before disappearing, robbing him of his Cavalier birthright.
But the Horsemen of eras past were smart—they left a legacy of equipment Jim can use to complete the next contract and resurrect the company. It’s up to Jim to find the people he needs to operate the machinery of war, train them, and lead them to victory. If he’s good enough, the company can still be salvaged.
But then again, he’s never been good enough.
The situation in the galaxy is growing desperate. Every day the Vorn are harvesting world after world to be used as food for their Queens. The Vorn ships are nearly indestructible and destroying every fleet that dares to oppose them.
Lakiam Fleet Commodore Dreen is trying to form an alliance to try to stop the Vorn, but he needs a victory to bring other Protector Worlds to his side.
Fleet Admiral Kurt Vickers undertakes a daring journey to the center of the galaxy seeking a half-mythical race that might just have the secret to stopping the Vorn. However, the mission goes horribly wrong, and he might never see Newton or Earth again.
Serus is a killer. As a policeman he was recruited to be a weapon at the Martian government's disposal. Brainwashed into compliance, he’s lost the life he once had, but his memories remain. When a hit is placed on his sister's life, Serus is faced with the dark reality that in order to save Kara, he must go rogue and doing so will put both of their lives in danger. Forced into an unlikely alliance to save Kara, Serus discovers a truth that could bring Mars to its knees, but what if it's too late?
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Jan 29, 2017 12:13AM
Amazon always fails in notifying me of developments.
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Fiannawolf wrote: "Amazon always fails in notifying me of developments."I think they have a bit of a delay in their systems. I still haven't been asked by them if I want a notification to go out about Perception. I've heard it can be at least a week.
